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ISBN 10: 019539769X 

ISBN 13: 9780195397697

Author: Thomas Attig

If we wish to understand loss experiences we must learn details of survivors’ stories. The new version of How We Grieve: Relearning the World tells in-depth tales of survival to illustrate the poignant disruption of life and suffering that loss entails. It shows how through grieving we overcome challenges, make choices, and reshape our lives. These intimate treatments of coping with loss address the needs of grieving people and those who hope to support and comfort them. The accounts promote understanding of grieving itself, encourage respect for individuality and the uniqueness of loss experiences, show how to deal with helplessness in the face of “choiceless” events, and offer guidance for caregivers.The stories make it clear that grieving is not about living passively through stages or phases. We are not so alike when we grieve; our experiences are complex and richly textured. Nor is grieving about coming down with “grief symptoms”. No one can treat us to make things better. No one can grieve for us.Grieving is instead an active process of coping and relearning how to be and how to act in a world where loss transforms our lives. Loss forces us to relearn things and places; relationships with others, including fellow survivors, the deceased, even God; and our selves, our daily life patterns, and the meanings of our life stories. This revision adds an introductory essay about developments in the author’s thinking about grieving as “relearning the world.” It highlights and clarifies its most distinctive and still salient themes. It elaborates on how his thinking about these themes has expanded and deepened since the first edition. And it places his treatment of those themes in the broader context of current writings on grief and loss.

Table of contents:

1. Stories of Grieving: Listening and Responding
Martin and Louise
Jennifer
Bill, Diane, and Margaret
Ed, Elise, and David
Kathryn
Colleen
Stories Are the Heart of the Matter
Bereavement, Grieving, and Mourning Defined
Why Do People Look to Books on Grieving?
They Seek General Understanding
They Seek Respect for Individuality
They Seek Ways to Deal with Helplessness in Grieving
They Seek Guidance for Caregivers

2. Grieving Is Active: We Need Not Be Helpless
The Story of Martin and Louise
Jennifer’s Story
Bereavement Is Choiceless, But Grieving Is Not
Grief Is an Emotion, Grieving a Coping Process
Grief, Motivation, and Helplessness
The Attractions of Grief
We Must Choose to Overcome Grief
Some Say We Grieve in Stages or Phases
Some Describe Our Grieving in Medical Terms
Is It Helpful to Talk of Stages, Phases, and Medical Analogies?
Some Say That as We Grieve We Address Tasks
A Task-Based, Active View
We All Have Some Choices as We Grieve
Grieving Is Active: A Summary
The Idea Provides General Understanding
The Idea Promotes Respect for Individuality
The Idea Addresses the Helplessness of Bereavement
The Idea Provides Guidance for Caregivers

3. Respecting Individuals When They Grieve
The Story of Bill and Diane
Respecting Individual Ways of Flourishing
We Find Meaning in Activity
We Find Meaning in Experiences
We Find Meaning Through Connection
Respecting Individual Vulnerabilities
We Are Vulnerable in Our Connections with Those Who Die
We Are Vulnerable to Loss of Wholeness
We Are Vulnerable to Anguish over Unfinished Business
We Are Vulnerable to the Lingering Effects of Hurtful Relationships with Those Who Die
We Are Vulnerable to “Disenfranchised” Grieving
We Are Vulnerable Because of the Circumstances of Some Deaths
We Are Vulnerable to Limits in Our Coping Capacities
We Are Vulnerable in Challenging Social Circumstances
Respecting Loss in Others
What Our Self-Respect Requires

4. Relearning the World
The Story of Ed and Elise
How We Relearn Our Worlds
The Worlds We Relearn
We Relearn Our Physical Surroundings
We Relearn Our Relationships with Fellow Survivors
We Relearn Our Selves
We Relearn Our Places in Space and Time
We Relearn Our Spiritual Places in the World
The Power of the Relearning Idea
The Idea Provides General Understanding
The Idea Promotes Respect for Individuality
The Idea Addresses Our Helplessness
The Idea Provides Guidance for Caregivers

5. Relearning Our Selves: Grief and Personal Integrity
David’s Story
Margaret’s Story
How Are We to Understand Ourselves in Loss and Grief?
How We Become the Selves We Are
Our Selves in Loss and Grief: Elaborating the Image
As We Cope, We Engage with and Move Beyond Suffering
We Struggle to Put Our Shattered Lives Back Together
We Seek New Ways to Complete Our Life Stories
We Become Whole Again as Parts of Larger Wholes
Together We Reshape Our Families and Communities
Advantages of the Idea of Relearning Our Selves
The Idea Provides General Understanding
The Idea Promotes Respect for Individuality
The Idea Addresses Our Helplessness
The Idea Provides Guidance for Caregivers

6. Relearning Our Relationships with the Deceased: Grief, Love, and Separation
Kathryn’s Story
Colleen’s Story
What We Lose, and What We Do Not Lose, When Someone Dies
Let Go We Must, But Not Entirely
We Continue to Love and Cherish the Stories of Lives Now Ended
We Still Care About What Those Who Died Cared About
Advantages of the Idea of Relearning Our Relationships with the Deceased
The Idea Provides Understanding
The Idea Promotes Respect for Individuality
The Idea Addresses Our Helplessness
The Idea Provides Guidance for Caregivers

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